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Hi GLOBE surface temperature enthusiasts. The first week of the GLOBE Surface Temperature campaign (plus a couple days) is over. I took at look through all of the data that has been submitted so far. The field campaign looks to be a great success again. I greatly appreciate all of your hard work. 17 schools have entered data so far from 4 countries.
The number of observations for a school is in parenthesis.
Sekundarschule Uzwil, Switzerland (2) – Thanks Markus
Shazar Intermediate School, Israel (12)
Al-Fath Secondary School at Abha, Saudi Arabia (2)
Princeton ...
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Citizen science is scientific research conducted by amateur or nonprofessional scientists. Formally, citizen science has been defined as "the systematic collection and analysis of data; development of technology; testing of hypotheses; and the dissemination of the resulting information by researchers on a primarily avocational basis. When students do science, it is citizen science. This is true when students take measurements and report their data or analyze data taken by themselves and others. It is particularly true when they complete research projects by reaching evidence-base ...
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GLOBE Surface Temperature Field Campaign
December 1 to December 31, 2014
The GLOBE Program will host the annual surface temperature field campaign from December 1 to December 31, 2014. This is a great opportunity to work as a community with schools around the world on a common research project. Students have used the surface temperature field campaign data to do research projects. And, one of my graduate students has been looking at the data and found that a strong warming due to urban areas is observable in the student data. It is my hope that continued expansion of the ...
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In the early 1980’s, I chaired a group of scientists exploring the idea of a comprehensive satellite mission to study all aspects of the global environment. The group was diverse with expertise covering the range of Earth science disciplines from geology, ecology, oceanography, limnology, glaciology, and atmospheric science and their various sub-disciplines. Their first recommendation was take today’s data today.
In all of Earth science there is the recognition that we have only one Earth to study. How Earth works is revealed by watching it change in a comprehensive manner and ...
A version of this blog was originally posted on November 14, 2012 .
If you have been listening to the news or following along with weather and climate web pages, you have probably heard the term "ENSO." ENSO, or El Niño-Southern Oscillation, is a quasi-periodic climate pattern that occurs in the tropical Pacific Ocean. When the conditions change, the atmosphere responds in many different ways. In certain locations, it is cloudier and it rains more, while in others it’s clear and dry. Scientists are forecasting El Niño conditions to start ...
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Curriculum:
SCIENCE AND MATH
GLOBE Science Topics:
CLIMATE
Investigation Areas:
ATMOSPHERE
We had an incredible turn out at our (the GLOBE) table at the NOAA booth at the NSTA conference. It was great to meet so many teachers and curriculum directors with an interest in GLOBE. Thanks to everybody who took the time to stop by and learn about GLOBE.
For those people who did not get the Earth System Science Poster , we are very sorry. Please follow this link to get the PDF files so that you can print out the pages to use in your classroom. The page also has a complete poster that can be projected or printed, and the activities guide.
Expanding on the ESS poster ...
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GLOBE Science Topics:
MEETINGS/CONFERENCES
News Topics:
TRAINING
Primary Audience:
PARTNERS
TEACHERS
Beste mensen,
Het effect van de uitzonderlijk zachte winter op de natuur is ook bij de media niet onopgemerkt gebleven. In de uitzending van het KRO programma Brandpunt op zondag 16 maart komt het onderwerp aan bod. Zie http://gemi.st/KN_1656575 . Het item begint op 23:20. Verder zat ik op zondag 9 maart in het programma Jinek op Zondag. Dit is terug te zien op http://gemi.st/KN_1656819 . Tenslotte zat ik op woensdag 19 maart in het EO-programma 'Melk en Honing'. De uitzending is terug te bekijken op http://gemi.st/EO_101212300 .
Vriendelijke groeten,
Arnold
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Field Campaigns:
SEASONS AND BIOMES
GLOBE Science Topics:
CLIMATE CHANGE
Learning Activities:
LAND COVER/BIOLOGY
Primary Audience:
TRAINERS
TEACHERS
STUDENTS
PARTNERS
SCIENTISTS
Beste GLOBE leerlingen in Nederland,
Jullie kunnen mij allemaal helpen de natuur te onderzoeken.
Groet,
Arnold
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Now that the new year is upon us, we can take a look at the GLOBE Surface Temperature field campaign from December 2013. I think it went very well. Tens of schools and thousands of students participated. Valuable data was collected that students can use to create research projects.
Here are the schools that have entered data so far.
David Wooster Middle School, Connecticut
Bellefontaine High School, Ohio – Hi Dennis
Birchwood School, Ohio – Hi Linda
Main Street Intermediate School, Ohio – Hi Marcy
Archbold Middle School, Ohio
The University of Toledo, Ohio – These are ...
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This week we welcome long-time friend of GLOBE, Dr. Margaret LeMone, Chief Scientist for the GLOBE Program from 2003-2009, as our guest blogger. Dr. LeMone is currently working in the field of weather and cloud formation at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
Originally posted at http://spark.ucar.edu/blog/measuring-rainfall on September 23, 2013.
Dr. Margaret LeMone,
Credit: UCAR
Dr. Margaret LeMone is an NCAR Senior Scientist who studies weather and cloud formation. For more information about her research, visit Dr. LeMone's home page .
A ...
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GLOBE Science Topics:
BACKYARD SCIENCE
Investigation Areas:
PRECIPITATION
This week’s blog post comes to us from Dr. Janis Steele and Dr. Brooks McCutchen. Drs. Steele and McCutchen, along with their three sons, have been aboard Research Vessel Llyr since April 24, 2013. Read about their adventure in the Intertropical Convergence Zone here .
When people think of life in the seas, it is often the majestic that comes to mind, such aswhales, sharks, rays and coral reefs, or our own sustenance in the form of the fish that feed billions of us around the world. Rarely do we think of plankton, the tiny organisms found across the world's oceans. Plankton ...
Blog originally posted on The GLOBE Scientists' Blog: http://blog.globe.gov/sciblog/2013/07/03/the-czech-republic-celebrates-globe-through-globe-games/
This week’s blog post is written in coordination between Jessica Mackaro and Dana Votapkova, former Country Coordinator for the Czech Republic. Ms. Votapkova is the project manager and GLOBE consultant for the TEREZA Association, a non-governmental organization for environmental education in the Czech Republic and is a regional help desk officer for the Europe and Eurasia region.
The idea of GLOBE Games was ...
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GLOBE Science Topics:
MEETINGS/CONFERENCES
Blog originally posted on The GLOBE Scientists' Blog: http://blog.globe.gov/sciblog/2013/06/26/north-america-and-hurricane-vulnerability-a-project-to-improve-forecasts/
The month of June brings with it hurricane season in the North Atlantic Ocean basin. Both countries in GLOBE’s North America Region, Canada and the United States, are affected by these storms. It is important to remember that tropical cyclones are named differently in various locations. In the Atlantic and east of the International Date Line in the North Pacific, they’re called hurricanes. In the ...
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GLOBE Science Topics:
GENERAL SCIENCE
Schools in Greece Participate in Earth Observation Day Via Donation from West Virginia University
West Virginia University faculty member and GLOBE scientist Dr. Rick Landenberger provided students at five Greek schools with scientific equipment to participate in Earth Observation Day, a STEM (Science, Education, Engineering, and Mathematics) educational event organized by the AmericaView consortium in partnership with the international SATELLITES Program and GLOBE. The schools included the 6 th Gymnasium of Volos, the 3 rd Lyceum of Aigaleo, the Gymnasium of Tinos, the 1 ...
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Blog originally posted on The GLOBE Scientists' Blog: http://blog.globe.gov/sciblog/2013/06/19/when-bad-things-happen-to-good-experiments/
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration , NASA, is famous for studying stars and planets and galaxies in outer space. But did you know it also has excellent programs that study planet Earth? The GLOBE Program is one of these programs. And over the past few years, I have been lucky enough to be a part of The Earth Observing System . More specifically, I work on an experiment called HIRDLS ...
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GLOBE Science Topics:
SCIENTIST SKILLS
This week’s blog comes to us from Mrs. Wafa Mubarek Bin Dayna, the Country Coordinator for the Kingdom of Bahrain. In this post she explains a new collaborative project occurring in the Kingdom of Bahrain exploring migratory birds throughout the country. This project was introduced in the 2011-2012 academic year and will continue for the three academic years following.
In the Kingdom of Bahrain, over 290 species of birds have been observed, the majority being passing migrants. Monitoring migratory birds isn’t always easy, as many migratory birds fly at a great ...
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Investigation Areas:
EARTH AS A SYSTEM
This week’s post is a continuation from last week , where our guest blogger, Vera Gekov, explored GLOBE and connected it to environmental stewardship.
As part of my Master’s Applied Research Project, I collected stories as richly diverse as the international GLOBE community itself from the question: “What does stewardship mean to you?” Answers ranged from “ taking care of Earth and its natural resources for the benefit of all creatures,” to “managing environmental resources,” and “developing a global consciousness and responsible behavior towards nature.”
What impressed ...
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Blog originally posted on The GLOBE Scientists' Blog: http://blog.globe.gov/sciblog/2013/05/29/the-connection-of-science-and-stewardship-part-i-motivation-and-initial-questions/
This week we have a guest blogger, Vera Gekov. Vera is a recent graduate of the Environmental Leadership program at Naropa University in Boulder, CO, USA. She was drawn to GLOBE because of the program’s commitment of increasing environmental literacy in youth. She completed her Applied Leadership Project by connecting with GLOBE teachers and country coordinators to understand ...
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Blog originally posted on The GLOBE Scientists' Blog: http://blog.globe.gov/sciblog/2013/05/22/through-the-eyes-of-a-student-nsta-2013/
This week’s guest blogger is Savona O’Brien, a senior at Paw Paw High School, located in rural West Virginia, USA. Savona has been participating in the GLOBE program for two years, and feels it’s a wonderful program that more students, teachers, and schools should participate in. Through her participation in GLOBE and GLOBE’s From Learning to Research project, Savona was given the opportunity to attend the National Science Teacher’s ...
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Blog originally posted on The GLOBE Scientists' Blog: http://blog.globe.gov/sciblog/2013/05/15/the-community-cloud-atlas/
During our time in the Atmospheric Science doctoral program at Colorado State University (CSU), we would take breaks from frustrating programming efforts and run upstairs to the roof of the building to take pictures of clouds. We would identify them by name, describe the conditions in which they were forming, and head back inside to see if we could put them within the context of the radar and satellite imagery. As our collection continued to grow, we ...
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Investigation Areas:
ATMOSPHERE
CLOUDS
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